Election Aftermath: Politics and Real Estate Development in San Francisco After November 5
Unless he’s imprisoned or incapacitated from alcohol poisoning due to national election results, veteran political consultant and City Hall insider Alex Clemens will lead us on a deep dive of what transpired in the November 5 General Election.
With at least two new Supervisors joining a Board of Supervisors where the progressive/moderate balance is at stake, an election with multiple consequential ballot initiatives before the City’s voters, and a nice, fractious Mayor's race that certainly has made no headlines, he (and you) will have an opportunity to speculate about what San Francisco's politics, priorities and land use will look like in 2025 and beyond.
As Alex describes it, he will be speaking "with the asterisk of *as if anyone can really tell – given the aftermath of the pandemic and ongoing hybrid work models, shifting economic realities, inflation concerns, a wave of migration to more affordable areas, heightened awareness of social inequities, the effects of climate change, geopolitical tensions, AI disrupting industries, and (gestures broadly at everything...)"
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Alex Clemens,
Co-founder, Progress Public Affairs
Alex Clemens is a veteran political operative and communications expert who has served four elected officials in San Francisco and Washington, DC. In 2003, Alex founded Barbary Coast Consulting, which the New York Times named an elite public affairs firm. In 2016, he merged his firm with another to co-found Lighthouse Public Affairs. In 2022, he and a group of his colleagues departed Lighthouse to form Progress Public Affairs, which you can find on the internets at www.progress-pa.com.
An accomplished lobbyist, Alex has been involved in two decades of negotiations surrounding San Francisco’s favorite political pastime: debating location, height and density. Alex has helped facilitate City Hall, community and stakeholder conversations that have shaped housing and development policy throughout the region, and has served a broad range of well-known clients as a strategic advisor regarding surrounding political direction and crisis communications.
Alex is a graduate of UC Santa Cruz, holding a degree in International Politics. He serves on the boards of the San Francisco Boys Chorus and the storied Sacramento Seminar civic discussion group, was appointed by Governor Newsom to the California State Board of Optometry, and is a licensed private investigator. He is also an occasional lecturer at the University of San Francisco’s Leo McCarthy Center, where he teaches master’s candidates about advocacy, lobbying and ethics. (And most importantly, he'd like to remind you to remind everyone around you to vote.)